According to the DREES, more than 30% of people eligible for social benefits would not apply for them. Find out which ones.
This is a number that may surprise. The DREES indicated that a large number of people eligible for social benefits would not apply for them: this “reached frequently levels above 30% in France”, said the DREES. This observation can be explained by a lack of information on this subject but also by the complexity of the procedures to be carried out in order to benefit from these social Security benefitssome of which have also increased.
Take the example of thefuel allowance which has been proposed, alongside other aid for motorists. This Tuesday, January 24, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, declared on Europe 1 that only 3 million French people eligible, out of a total of 10 million, asked to benefit from it. This is an aid of 100 euros, which is not negligible. The Minister then insisted, in view of the heartbreaking figures: “They have to go and ask for this help”, did he declare. The persons concerned by this fuel allowance are those who use their vehicle to workor for go to work.
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Which social benefits are concerned by the phenomenon of non-recourse?
The fuel allowance is unfortunately not an isolated case. This is in fact the phenomenon of non-use of social benefits. This therefore includes other benefits to which some are entitled but do nothing to receive them. This is particularly the case of RSA which, according to the direction of studies of the Ministry of Health, accounted for 34% of non-use in 2018. The minimum old age, he accounted for the year 2016 50% non-use of single people. According to the DREES, the annual amount not paid reaches 3 billion euros for the RSA. A crazy sum, which was originally intended for eligible French people.
In the 2021 barometer of opinion on the degree of knowledge of social benefits and on the reasons for non-use published by the DREES, the first ground for dismissal to social benefits cited by 37% of French people is that of the lack of information on aid or organizations. The cause of this sad observation? “A difficulty of the populations targeted at appropriate the informationwhich is complex” according to Héléna Revil, scientific manager of the Observatory of non-use of rights and services (Odenore), a research center at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, who confided in the BFMTV site. This is therefore not necessarily due to a lack or a major problem of communication by the public authorities.